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Up bright and early with the sound of kids playing at other camps. It's fresh in the mornings but the jumper is peeled off by 8 am as the day starts it's daily heating. The temperature hovers around the 28 degrees. We drove down to Tunnel Creek where an enjoyable three hours was spent with torches as we hiked through the water …

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... 2 days to travel 288 km to Mt. Barnett where we camped beside Manning Creek for 3 days. The relatively short walk to ManningGorge started with the thrill of pulling ourselves across the creek in a tin dingy rigged with a pulley system and ended with a ...

... 's was perfect and provided entertainment in the form of a pair of mating lizards on the path; Windjana hosted what is Australia's highest concentration of freshwater crocs, some of whom were lying on the banks, mouths open to cool themselves, while ...

... happily, we'd filled up in Wyndham at $1.14).
A rugged walk of about four hours took us to the waterfall in the Upper ManningGorge and back, and then Lesley had a swim in the river pool beside the camping area while I settled for a shower of ...

... opinion, the most beautiful postcard perfect place we visited!! check out the pictures below. Moving onto Barnett Roadhouse and ManningGorge... To say that this is a popular place is an understatement. There were so many people camped here ...

... and decided to part company until Broome, with us staying on for an extra night after the hot sticky walk out to Upper ManningGorge and the falls, including the river crossing where we floated our camera and shoes across in a Styrofoam box! The next ...

... ; sedimentary rock. Some of the Gorges that we visited from the Derby end of the road were the Barnet river gorge, Manninggorge, Adcock gorge, Bell gorge & of course Windjana gorge this was a big day for us & we had planed on staying at Windjana ...

Day 20 King River to ManningGorge 320ks
Nice start, left at 8.30, everyone was wet from the dew, but we took off and back on the dirt.
Another 4 hours of eating dust we made it, boy did we east dust and boy did we bounce around, I a very busy road ...

... . To back track briefly, after leaving Mitchell falls we joined the Gibb river road again and made it to ManningGorge very late after a trailer tyre blew. We would have felt lucky to have made this journey with no issues and ...

... days spent swimming and relaxing by the water and around the camp-fires were great. The last stop turned out to be at ManningGorge for 3 nights, in a secluded camp-site, away from the main area, by a flowing stream and with a resident bull. ...

... to cross paths with them again as their 4WD and off-road camper trailer are both spotless. After a fish & chip feed up tonight, our plans are to head up the Gibb River Road to Charnley Station for a while, then on to ManningGorge for a few ...